Clitandre, a wealthy bourgeois, in love with Henriette, "the thorough woman," by whom he is beloved with fervent affection. Her elder sister, Armande (2 syl.), also loves him, but her love is of the platonic hue, and Clitandre prefers in a wife the warmth of woman's love to the marble of philosophic ideality.—Molière, Les Femmes Savantes (1672).
Cloaci'na, the presiding personification of city sewers. (Latin, cloaca, "a sewer.")
...Cloacina, goddess of the tide,
Whose sable streams beneath the city glide.
Gay,
Trivia
, ii. (1712).
Clod'dipole (3 syl.), "the wisest lout of all the neighboring plain." Appointed to decide the contention between Cuddy and Lobbin Clout.
From Cloddipole we learn to read the skies,
To know when hail will fall, or winds arise;